Grammar Fundamentals
This workshop — delivered online or on-site — is designed for anyone who needs to write e-mail messages, letters, and business documents that communicate clearly and convey a professional image of the writer and the organization. Participants review the key grammar and punctuation rules necessary for effective business writing. Through examples and practice exercises, they learn to identify and correct errors and awkward constructions in their own writing.
Topics include:
- The importance of correct grammar, punctuation, and word usage to clear communication.
- How to identify and correct incomplete sentences, run-on sentences, and clumsy, awkward sentences.
- How to identify and correct common pronoun errors, errors with verb usage, and problems with articles
- How to identify and correct the most frequent punctuation errors including commas, apostrophes, semicolons, colons, parentheses, and dashes.
- How to identify and clarify commonly misused words.
- Strategies for learning more about the use of grammar and punctuation
Our Approach:
- To ensure that our training meets the participants’ needs, we customize the curriculum after assessing writing samples and reviewing objectives.
- During training, we encourage active participation through discussion and practice.
- Participants apply concepts and techniques by evaluating, editing, planning and drafting job-related documents with one-to-one feedback from the instructor.
